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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

This Country Banned Abortion and a 69.2% Reduction In Maternal Death Rates Resulted

It took me a while, but I finally found the non-pro-life website links for this information.

That's a link to the actual May 2014 published study (and here's another unbiased link). We wanted to avoid the sometimes-sensational articles that covered this from last August through December (those didn't provide links to the real study).

Women's Education Level, Maternal Health Facilities, Abortion Legislation and Maternal Deaths: A Natural Experiment in Chile from 1957 to 2007
Elard Koch, Institute of Molecular Epidemiology (MELISA), Center of Embryonic Medicine and Maternal Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Department of Primary Care and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Doctoral Program, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
John Thorp, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Miguel Bravo, Institute of Molecular Epidemiology (MELISA), Center of Embryonic Medicine and Maternal Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Sebastián Gatica, Institute of Molecular Epidemiology (MELISA), Center of Embryonic Medicine and Maternal Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Camila X. Romero, Department of Primary Care and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Hernán Aguilera, Department of Primary Care and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Ivonne Ahlers, Department of Primary Care and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Published: May 4, 2012
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036613

Results

During the 50-year study period, the MMR [Maternal Mortality Rate] decreased from 293.7 to 18.2/100,000 live births, a decrease of 93.8%. Women's education level modulated the effects of TFR, birth order, delivery by skilled attendants, clean water, and sanitary sewer access. In the fully adjusted model, for every additional year of maternal education there was a corresponding decrease in the MMR of 29.3/100,000 live births. A rapid phase of decline between 1965 and 1981 (−13.29/100,000 live births each year) and a slow phase between 1981 and 2007 (−1.59/100,000 live births each year) were identified. After abortion was prohibited, the MMR decreased from 41.3 to 12.7 per 100,000 live births (−69.2%).

...maternal deaths due to abortion complications decreased 99% between 1957 and 2009 in Chile, and the downward mortality trend was continuous before and after abortion ban in 1989. Currently, less than 3% of all maternal deaths are related to an abortive outcome (mainly secondary to ectopic pregnancy and/or other pathologic conditions), additionally decreasing from 10.8 to 0.39 per 100,000 live births between 1989 and 2009.

In that article, Dr. Koch also provided links to more of his related research:

We found significant overestimations of abortion figures in the Federal District of Mexico (up to 10-fold), where elective abortion has been legal since 2007. Significant overestimation of maternal and abortion-related mortality during the last 20 years in the entire Mexican country (up to 35%) was also found. Such overestimations are most likely due to the use of incomplete in-hospital records as well as subjective opinion surveys regarding induced abortion figures, and due to the consideration of causes of death that are unrelated to induced abortion, including flawed denominators of live births.

While that study concluded that changing the legal status of abortion might not decrease overall maternal mortality rates in Mexico as it has done in Chile,

Statistics are only as good as the methodologies to accurately assess abortions and abortion-related maternal deaths. It's something to ponder whenever reading about broad-brush conclusions on either side of the issue. If anyone is overestimating either statistic, it's clearly not helpful to base conclusions or decisions on those incorrect estimates.

"After Abortion,...run by Emily Peterson and Annie Banno, two women who had abortions in the 1970s, ...tries to avoid the political tug-of-war that tends to come with this turf. They concentrate instead on discussing the troubling personal effects of abortion on the mothers." ~ Eric Scheske, Godspy contributing editor, in NC Register's "Signs of Life in the Blogosphere", 2/2006

POST-ABORTION help:

"I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion...[many are] aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision and [do] not doubt it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace...You will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost and you will also be able to ask forgiveness from your child..."

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